personally i think its about not letting go of a girl that onced loved you. his world is falling down because the girl left her, but hes still holding on to her. flying on the ground may mean hes still swept away by her, but needs to let go and cant, so hes flying but still on the ground(her).
i dont think the upper and downer analogy is very valid. an upper just exhibits an excitatory response to the nervous system while downers produce an inhibitory response. alcohol is a physiologically a "downer" but does not depress most ppl, at least if theyre not already depressed. nicotine is physiologically an upper, but it relaxes most ppl. neither term has anything to do with an emotional response; who would ever take a drug that makes you depressed and sad? anyways uppers and downers is just a product of the gross misinformation from dare and society on drugs.
thats not to say your views totally wrong. he could be singing about a drug he cant stop using, but has gotten to the point where he definitely should stop. its not as if noone in the band didnt use drugs or wrote songs about them, but to me this doesnt seem to be one of them.
personally i think its about not letting go of a girl that onced loved you. his world is falling down because the girl left her, but hes still holding on to her. flying on the ground may mean hes still swept away by her, but needs to let go and cant, so hes flying but still on the ground(her).
i dont think the upper and downer analogy is very valid. an upper just exhibits an excitatory response to the nervous system while downers produce an inhibitory response. alcohol is a physiologically a "downer" but does not depress most ppl, at least if theyre not already depressed. nicotine is physiologically an upper, but it relaxes most ppl. neither term has anything to do with an emotional response; who would ever take a drug that makes you depressed and sad? anyways uppers and downers is just a product of the gross misinformation from dare and society on drugs.
thats not to say your views totally wrong. he could be singing about a drug he cant stop using, but has gotten to the point where he definitely should stop. its not as if noone in the band didnt use drugs or wrote songs about them, but to me this doesnt seem to be one of them.